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Chris Roth
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New headlight and need a bracket
12/04/12 at 11:20:11
I ordered a new aftermarket headlight and it looks pretty good, all black HID. Problem is it has only the single post for mounting. My bike had a severely cracked stock plastic/chrome one with the 2 bolts integrated nderneath.
Does anyone make a good headlight adapter bracket for our bikes? I have searched a lot at online stores and either I am using the wrong terms or nobody makes these. Only one I have seen was on ebay, a bit overpriced but if I am desperate...
one other thing, would having no headlight make the bike not start? I destroyed the old one coming off and cannot mount new one yet. But it won't start and not sure if this is related.
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Re: New headlight and need a bracket
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12/04/12 at 13:21:57
Drill a 3/8" hole in the bottom tree and mount it.
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12/05/12 at 06:24:12
Demin wrote
on 12/04/12 at 13:21:57:
Drill a 3/8" hole in the bottom tree and mount it.
I was concerned about weakening that from being solid support system for the front fork. With two holes fairly close together, putting another between them made me think one accidental curb bump and SNAP.
Is this how others are approaching an aftermarket headlight mount?
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12/05/12 at 07:18:40
I am going to mount a train light using side mounts attached to the fork tubes.
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12/05/12 at 07:25:02
You can use just a small piece of steel with holes to match with the stock mount and a hole for the new.
Problem: headlight was too far forward:
Had a little of aluminum angle, cut four pieces, small holes to for small bolts on the sides, two holes down for the stock mount, one up for the headlight:
Worked Jes' Fine!
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12/05/12 at 07:28:11
I've put probably 20,000 miles on since I put this light on and no problems.And I ride'er hard at times.
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12/05/12 at 07:31:00
Somebody here made a cute little adapter (I was hoping they would chime in)... maybe 1" tall and 2" wide...
It was a little open ended, metal, cube... 2 holes on the bottom, a single hole on top...
Use pretty sturdy stock,, to prevent vibration... a jiggly headlight is really annoying at night....
Okay,.. it was Paladin,... and he just beat me to the post...
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12/05/12 at 07:34:04
Pssst......Look 2 posts up sero.
So, I'm a slow typer...
... Serow
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12/05/12 at 07:50:52
I used an old fire extinguisher mount I had laying around and used the two threaded bolt mounts for the wire retainer on the top plate. I'd do a link but I'm on my phone ATM.
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12/05/12 at 09:06:50
Paladin. wrote
on 12/05/12 at 07:25:02:
Had a little of aluminum angle, cut four pieces, small holes to for small bolts on the sides, two holes down for the stock mount, one up for the headlight:
Would a piece of square tubing work just as well?
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12/05/12 at 09:14:51
Greg wrote
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Would a piece of square tubing work just as well?
I was gonna' say that... but, "square tubing" just didn't sound like it could be right...
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Chris Roth
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12/05/12 at 12:15:07
I was hoping for a simple adapter like the ones found commonly for the Harley bikes which apparently have wider set mounts. I may be able to pull something together. Although I lack any skills or tools for welding, I can handle the drilling into something that may be the right size to start with.
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12/05/12 at 13:03:43
Hey Chris here's the mount that I made from the fire extinguisher bracket, I only used a dremmel, file and drill.
Mounted with the bucket's block-
Here's the link to that thread-
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1347585851/30
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12/05/12 at 13:19:24
ToesNose wrote
on 12/05/12 at 13:03:43:
Here's the link to that thread-
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1347585851/30
Link doesn't work for me, gives a DNS error.
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Re: New headlight and need a bracket
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12/05/12 at 13:29:44
Chris Roth wrote
on 12/05/12 at 13:19:24:
ToesNose wrote
on 12/05/12 at 13:03:43:
Here's the link to that thread-
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1347585851/30
Link doesn't work for me, gives a DNS error.
Try this link instead...
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1347585851/37#37
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